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Soviet Faces Task in Obtaining
Enough Uranium for A-Bombs y By The Seripps-Howard Newspapers . WASHINGTON, Apr. 8—Russia is stockpiling food, fuel and military equipment, our government learns. Defense officials think this is significant. Food
spoils, if kept long. Explosives deteriorate in four years.
Russia's big investment will be worthless unless used within a few years. But stockpile may be due to fear of attack from the west, may be for defense only. Russian stockpile buyers are busy in most parts
-of the globe. She lacks tin, rubber, industrial diamonds;
lead. Conquest of China opens new source of tin, lead and ‘other metals; rubber is being Bought in Malaya, Ceylon. A synthetic rubber industry. turned out 166 000
tons last year.
Also Russia is busily exploring natural resources within her has discovered some 1600 valuable mineral deposits
own in the Arctic in past few years,
She's having trouble getting enough uranium for A-bombs. And Russia's water shortage may be more serious than ours. Reports indicate Russia is working hard at rain making. Warmer-than-average decade has dried out great land areas, has caused Caspian Sea level to drop.
Note: = Defense Secretary Johnson ~ is looking for an “out” on his economy drive.
He's frightened by possibility real crisis blame falling on him for limiting our defenses. When he agreed to let joint chiefs of staff review airplane buying program, said he'd go along: with their decision, he was reversing himself. Joint chiefs are certain to favor more planes.
Urge Military Draft MIDWEST is becoming warconscious. Rep. Cecil Harden (R. Ind.) took a potl--in--her distriet;
‘ found people two to one for
universal
“former Commies,
training, “they”
military Fear of Russian attack,
- said. Two years ago vote went
the other way by big margin. Draft act expires une 24 and only bill pending to extend
it provides for registration and .
classification only, of men up to 32, no inductions.
Spy Hunt Pressed HOUSE SPY hunters will hear 150 witnesses, 37 of them in Honolulu hearings next week. Back in Washington, committee plans to reopen Elizabeth Bentley spy ring case. New witnesses, new evidence on persons named earlier, are promised. Chairman John 8. Wood had to skip Honolulu trip, go home to Georgia instead. Former state commander of American Legion is running against him in June primaries.
Kerr Bill OK Due LOOK FOR President Truman to sign Kerr natural gas bill. Mr. Truman is said to have promised signature if bill car-
ried clause permitting Federal
Power Commission to look into high price monopoly charges — though lawyers say it already
—has this power.
LwciOB Appeal.
If President vetoes, Speaker Rayburn doesn’t have votes to override him in House—nor does Kerr in Senate. Some Democrats worry about reelection if Mr. Truman signs: others worry about campaign contributions from gas-pro-ducing country if he doesn't.
Bids for U. S. Trade
NEW CONSERVATIVE gov-
“ernment in Australia is swing=""
ing toward closer tie with the United States, through trade; away from Britain. It is miffed at treatment Australia has had from Attlee government. Australians won't want any handouts from us, no Marshall
Plan, no-Point Four just trade.
On Point Four: Congress has not passed it yet, but some 50 foreign governments have written State Department for information about what's offered.
Study CIO Situation
GOVERNMENT officials fear there 1s dynamite Coast waterfront situation as result of Harry Bridges’ conviction. CIO, alréady planning to oust longshoremen’s union
because of Communist-domina-
tion, will act within next few weeks. : It's expected to set up a new union, fry to enroll bulk of the longshoremen. Bridges, free
Beck of AFL Teamsters, may try to grab control. One official says outcome may depend on waterfront employers. They have contracts with Bridges’ union, will have to decide whether to honor them.
Building Still Active GOVERNMENT housing officials think home building boom will continue for some time as a result of new $4 billion housing-credit bill. They think it will shift emphasis to lower-cost units, and to three instead of two-bedroom houses. Decision of conferees to cut from $750 million to $250 million total allowed for buying of new mortgages is OK they believe. Much of the $1 billion
which Federal National Mort-
gage Association has used within last five months is in commitments to buy and thus provides market for mortgages om considerable number
* of homes not yet built.
Urge Farm Support THERE'S GROWING sentiment in Congress for support: ing prices of only crops that can be stored.” No action, though, tim after
year pressures
eampaign
. might leave them with more
eoostly farm law than they
have now, -
may arise with-
-Indonesians
in West
may..fight. Dave.
election,” Those who favor change say —
Next year they think rising support costs will make it easier to abandon perishable crops. Push for eggs, butter, etc, comes from Southerners who grow cotton, tobacco, peanuts. Administration men fight it for fear of effect on Midwest.
Pulls Old Trick
"VETERANS Administrator Carl Gray has worked an old trick .on congressional economizers, has gotten away with it.
On Mar. 10 he told hospitals and. regional offices. to. give 30-day notices to 48000 medical workers, As expected, veterans
“OT ZANTZATIONS, WédicaT grotps
and others burned up wires to Washington. Congress is now agreeing to give Gray supplemental funds to pay salaries of the 4800 in rest of this fiscal year, also $17 million additional for next year. Dismissal notices have been rescinded, just in time.
Ponders Senate Race
ASSISTANT Postmaster General Paul Aiken, Kansas Democrat, is back home deciding whether to run for the Senate. Democratic National Committeeman Carl Rice is already in the race. Kansas Democrats hope bitter Republican primary fight between Gov. Frank Carlson and former American Legion Commander Harry Colmery will give them real chance this year.
Scores First Victory
BRAND-NEW United States of Indonesia has won its first diplomatic victory — against Great Britain. Maneuvering started ‘with * arrest in. Malaya of Turk ~Westerling;, ex-Dutch Army captain whose rebel armies have been harassing Indonesians. Indonesians demanded his extradition, said they had “inherited” treaties signed by Holland and Britain, invelving East Indies. Britain denied this.
So Indonesians let Britain
know that if extradition didn’t -
stand, neither did trade treaties, specifically one under
which British. are. getting rub-
ber. Britain took another look. say ~ Westerling faces 30,000 murder indiet-
ments.
British Offended
DISCOUNT DENIALS that
_the U.S. Defense Department
wants to by-pass British War Secretary John Strachey. Unwritten agreement = between
British and United States on |
this actually had been reached. When Defense Secretary Johnson talked too much,
~‘hasty explanations had to be
made, and British dignity was offended. Strachey is firmly entrenched in office but feel-
ing of military men of both"
nations against him hasn't
changed.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES "STATE POLITICS . ._._ By Robert Bloem
TEN PRR ERAGE
People Change Minds, Politicians In Trying to. Interpret Registration
Party Leaders Hope to Take Voters
Down November Streich at Fever Pitch NOW the politicians have something to worry about besides whether the Russians have the H-bomb. ~The problem is—what brought on this rush of voters to register? It could mean a lot of things. They'd be good or bad depending on party point of view:If it's just a sudden surge of interest without pressure from either side, then it poses a tough
problem for both parties. This much you can count on the politicians aren't going to ‘take anybody's word this time. They learned about polling the voters the hard way in 1948 so they'll probably find out for themselves. Even after they do their best to find out what's gotten .into the voters they will proceed as “though they didn't know There's a reason for that odd attitude, 108;
- “ arr DESPITE ail the fun that was poked at the pollsters after the 1948 election, Republicans and Democrats still feel the pollsters may have been right in gauging sentiment. What may have happened, they fear, is simply that the voters changed their minds in the las 15 days and the polls weren't fast enough to catch up. So even if the GOP convinces itself that the new outpouring of registrations is a protest against the Truman administration, party leaders will proceed with caution. Very special efforts will be made to keep workers at. fever pitch right up to election day. They want no more Republicans to stay home thinking the election is in the bag. Similarly, wise heads in the Democratic Party will not take too much stock in reports that labor unions _are whipping out new voters to beat Sen. Capehart. They're realists enough
to know that what happened
to the GOP in 1948 could happen to the Democrats in 1950. They're. beginning. to voters are pretty unpredictable people,
= = ” T 2 THE MAY 2 primary will be
studied closely for a clue to
World Report—
cee LARK
the rising voter Interest. There's no particular. trend in primary election voting. Yet in the last decade Republicans have shown more primary election interest than Democrats four times out of five. Phus any. great relative upswing in either party's primary vote may at least furnish a
“elue. Tt 1s generally agreed
that the party that interests an individual gets his vote. A major upswing in primary election interest on either side
. may indicate that's the side
that's pulling in the new vote. It would be a mistake, however, to consider any primary election development as more than a clue. It definitely will not furnish the final answer. s " = THIS WEEK'S “Citizenship Participation Bulletin” from the State Chamber of Commerce poses this question: “If you don’t know your legislative candidates— their qualifications and their political philosophies—~how can you vote intelligently?”
That's one we've been trying
to figure out, too. First glance at more than 100 candidates for .legislature in the two parties is almost discouraging enough to prompt the answer: “You can’t.”
Did vou ever try getting to
know 50 or 60 persons, well enough to ‘vote intelligently.’ ina little over three weeks It isn’t going to ‘be possible, of course, it } the voters can come closer this vear than ever before in a -primary election. The Indianapolis Times, the chamber itself, other civic and business
But indications are
groups, too, are working hard to get the state issues over to the voters and also the attitude of “various candidates on these issues. The primary has one advantage over the general election -the - voter doesn’t have to choose between two parties. His job is’ simply to seek out the Democrats or the Republicans he feels would best represent. him if that particular party wins in November, » ~ - IN OTHER WORDS, to vote intelligently, a primary voter need not necessarily get wound up in the matters that will be at issue between the parties.
~-Hig-problem-is to decide what
he thinks his own party should stand for and: nominate the candidates who will carry that stand into the election. If the voter fails in .individual instances, the real test of his intelligence comes in November when he has a chance 'to remedy his failures in the gene eral election. Some political observers think it would help for the parties to adopt a platform or at least a statement of. policies as the GOP has done nation ally, before the primary ele: tion. Others feel that if a porty is really trying to provide rep resentative government it must hold off on party stands until the candidates are nominated. Then they can help formulate policies on the basiz of what their constituents want "This is one of the problems parties may be. able to solve if the heavy primary registra-
tion means an unpressured citizen interest in politics. If the ideal situation were reached where virtually every eligible voter went to the polls every electipn =the parties: would have to provide truly
representative government- or
Tse aE ” ” THE- BREWING “socialized medicine” fight may’ have a
strong effect on the old strug-
- chiropractors
RR
Recall Rush
gle in Indiana between doctors
_ and chiropractors.
The grapevine, not necessarily originating in any political headquarters, is carrying this message in effect: “If the medical societies join the GOP to fight Fair Deal health plans, there's no place for the chiropractors to go but to the Democrats. If the GOP wins, the ‘doctors- will, control the legislature anyway. If the Democrats win, maybe the will - have a chance to have their art licensed as other healing arts now are.” There is no indication to date as to how effective the pull and push has been either way. Republicans, of course, jump with joy at the prospect of making the medical societies a branch of the GOP. Democrats view such a development with alarm. They are not fully consoled - by the prospect of winning over the chiropractors.
~ - = A FEW political neutrals see possible danger in the develop-
ments in any event. One such possible danger is that the medics and” the chiropractors may find themselves as deeply cotved in —pohties—this way : fear they wil become ruman:itwing health play should ever pass Con RICES If the Demourals face a strongly organized GOP medical corps, they will, of course
have to find a political answer. Should that answer become a drive to undermine the public's faith in the medical profession on grounds the profession had
become political, neither the public nor the doctors could hope to gain much in the end. This is a question the docs
andthe chiropractors will have
to decide for themselves soon unless thev want the voters to decider for-them: ber. It is a decision the poli-
ticians, especially the Democrats who stand to be hurt most, are waiting for eagerly.
West Braces for Last-Ditch Stand fo Stay in Berlin ‘As Russ Tip Hand They Are Ready to Employ Force
Allies Begin to Unify Military Zones While Reds Stir Up May Day Fervor
By GORDON CUMMING, Compiled From the Wire Services Russia today is preparing to infiltrate and sovietize Berlin, at the same time increasing Communist pressure throughout Western Europe. The first moves have been made. ° Military men, such as Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, know what's up, and they have sounded a warning. Civilian leaders, too, are
aware of the oncoming test, A tardy but effective tight‘ening of Allied controls in Berlin is only one of the signs that the warnings have heen heard and acted upon. The American, British and French zones of Berlin would be easy targets for Communist infiltration if they remained under separate command. Even the steps already taken to unify the military defenses of the Allied zones in ‘Berlin are not meet the Soviet drive. A logical next -step would be to place the Western part of the city under a single commanding head. Potential Army Russia has long planned to force the Western nations out of Berlin. For this purpose it has created a potential army in the eastern zone of Germany disguised as “Alert Police’ and
“People’s Police” numbering 125,000 men. A reserve in the form of
‘Free German Youth,” modeled after the Hitler Youth, now
" has a membership of 2 million.
With these forces, Russia expects to drive across the zonal boundaries using May Day celebrations or any other means of concentrating great military forces. Opposed to the Communist forces in Berlin, the Allies can ‘muster a total of 9000 police
backed by not more than 7500
American, British and French troops. This ‘is a weak defense, ness corrected before a real drive rts, The whole picture in Fast Germany recalls vividly the period after World War I when the German general staff flouted Allied military control by setting up an army in police uniforms.
sufficient to.
Russia has supplanted the German general staff but, today, the West has heard the alarm. ‘The Atlantic Pact nations are being réearmed. The defenses of Berlin are being unified and Russia's manipulation of Germany's war potential effectively countered. War Danger Real The danger of real war starting is greater in the present tension around Berlin than at the time of the airlift, which involved only -blockade of the railroad. Today, Russia is sending trained reserves against the zone boundaries and is ready to throw in armed police. Many hotheaded young German Communists may get Killed as ell as the Allied defenders. However, hope persists that Russian leaders will avoid final provocation of war so long as there-is—a--remote-chance of gaining their ends: the conquest of Berlin, by infiltration and by setting Germans of the East against those of the West,
Great Britain
THE exile of Bamangwato
__chief-designate Seretse Khama
has started the.voodoo drums beating again in the bushlands of British Africa, Seretse’s followers in London said today. Seretse’s friends said reports from Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, all protectorates, show that Britain’ s treatment of Seretse is rer ously preying on the minds” the tribal chieftains. The chiefs.resent the British government's interference in tribal affairs and. to gain support and power, they are listening to the witchdoctors who specialize in ritual murder, the reports said.
The. Labor government banned = Seretse, hereditary chief, from the Bamangwato
“{rive Tor five years for his mar-
riage of a white girl, Ruth Williams. She is expecting her first child in June,
Italy
AMERICA'S new. poliev of helping - Tito took a public drubbing today in Italy, shaking Italian-American friendship at the very moment when the first shipments of U. S, arms were nearing Italian ports. Eleventh-hour cancellation of Easter trip to Rome by the new American Ambassador to Yugoslavia, George Allen, failed to halt the thunderous Italian challenges from both
- right and left.
While -Stalinists suggested "Allen was trying to get Trieste for Tito, the nationalist newspaper Tempo called Mr. Allen's trip “a surprise Easter egg we dislike.” The most moderate suspicion
expressed was that Mr=Allen®
intended to ask Italy to renounce Zone B, the southern
part of Trieste now occupied
under the United Nations by Tito's ‘Communist troops. An election is due there Apr. 16, under Tito’s yes-or-no system. Mr. Allen is charged-—perhaps unjustly—with making himself Tito's emissary to the extent
a ‘planning to persuade Italy °
to give this half of i to Yugoslavia,
the king back.
Do Soviet UN Boycotts Mean a Bolt?
LAKE SUCCESS. N. 3
peel “Apr. 8 —Any way you
look at it, Russia today was all but out of the United
Nations. After 2
0 walkouts and repeated vetoes, United
Nations. officials doubt that the Kremlin ever will return to full participation in many minor phases
of the oyganization.
There is belief here that the Soviets might propose a Big Five meeting, after Chinese Communists are seated in the United Nations,' to discuss atomic control, peace treaties and other top-level questions.
But little else.
How long: Russia will keep a sizable UN staff in downtown New York to make occasional visits to Lake Success to exercise its veto or stage a-walkout
is anybody's guess.
Belgium
PREMIER-DESIGNATE PAUL VAN ZEELAND. who promised confidently that he would have a cabinet pledged to return King Leopold III te
the throne ready by noon ° Saturday. admitted today that he had failed.
Prince Regent Charles gave Mr. Van Zeeland an “Easter truce” extension of three days —until noon. Tuesday—to renew his efforts to form a government which “would bring
A leftist-backed law, passed in 1945, declares that IL.eopold is incompetent to reign because of his surrender to the Nazis in 1940. Mr. Van Zeeland did not say what were the “difficlties” that caused the last-minute holdup. However, it was believed he was having some trouble getting non-parliamentary leftists to join “his government.
Indonesia
REBEL troops patrolled the streets of Macassar last night,
“their-guns trained toward the
_ move,
sea where Indonesian government troops await orders to land and retake the Celebes
wn CAPILa). from. the insurgents... .
The city, “captured by rebel forces under Capt. Abdul Azis last” Thursday, was quiet but the atmosphere was tense, Nine . hundred federal ernment troops from Jakarta are aboard.two transports off
gov-
the harbor. The rebels are Attempting to blockade food supplies to them.
Formosa THE Chinese Nationalist air force said last night that fits planes battled 25 ‘“Russiantype” fighters in a dogfight
over Shanghai-and—“damaged-
several” of the“enemy craft. An air force communique said that all planes, which were on a bombing raid against Shanghai, came back, The communique did not say that any of the Chinese Communist fighter planes were shot down.
Australia "EVER since last December's
elections, the Australian Socialists’ Senate majority of 10
has been a gun pointed at the
Liberal Government's head, " But not until today have the Laborites looked - like they were pulling the trigger and forcing new national elections. The issue again is the government's plan to.create a
hoard to govern its nationwide
commonwealth bank. Labor chiefs, who want retention of the system of a single governor they set up,
oppose the measure, Moréover. ...
they threaten to block it with their Senate majority. In Australia, ‘if the Senate twice rejects a bill, the government is forced to ask dissolu= tion" of both houses of parliament and go to the country.
U. S. Fails to Hem In Russ And Washington Worries
WASHINGTON, Apr. 8 (UP)-~America’s cold war policy of containment of Soviet expansion appeared today’ to
be in a dangerously weakened
condition.
Policy makers are faced with the problem of trying to decide which weak spot will be picked for the Kremlin's next Russia, for example, has consolidated its position in Eastern Europe to a degree
that has Washington worried.”
Realistic evaluations here list the following bad spots: South Korea — Failure of the South Korean government to democratize itself and halt inflation bas given weight to predictions that the Communists will take over.
Japan--While Japan's economy has fmproved, the United -
States has failed to reach a position: on a peace treaty,
Russia “may emerge as “champion” of’
the early peace
“with Japan,
Indo-China — Experts give Nationalist Leader Bao Dai little more ‘than a 50-50 chance to win his civil "war against the Communists: ‘If Red China moves in they admit Bao Dai is licked. Burma — Racked by multlfactioned civil war, Burma is in “a mess.” Red Chinese troops are on the border. Tibet — This ancient theoeracy, which has announced its independence and made a bid for western aid, has been turned down. U. 8. officidls doubt that Red China will invade and subjugate Tibet, -India — Washington has its fingers crossed. The India-
Pakistan crisis has materially °
retarded the economic advance of both countries,
in--Noveny~--
the nationalist
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County Grocery ‘Gravy Train’
At End of Line
Real Competitive Biddin 0g: 3 | ers
Due to Replace Trick © By The Times City Staft The Times’ expose of wasteful methods used county commissioners in. purchasing supplies for county institutions has sounded “gravy train" death knell. The ‘word already is traveling about in meat, grocery and
produce circles. -
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a
From now on companies wanting county's volume
business expect real competitive bidding. ~ sR they knew it was useless to bid because the ‘in the know” knew what to bid high on, what to You simply bid very, very low on items like beef
Heretofore," companies * bid low on.
tenderloins, which never adorned a plate at a county institution, and socked it to 'em on items like hamburger,
es
MAYOR FEENEY'S indorsement of Andy Jacobs recalls old
political saw: It's tough
“If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.” to figure how any politician's mind works, but
here's good guess on Feeney shift to full support of Jacobs. He wants to show party chiefs he's man to be reckoned with. One way is to name as many of his City Hall boys as
sie 8 candidates for office May 2 primary, Opposing Mr pst. now- appears likely to be futile. = By-joining Andy; faction apparently. neutralized
dangerous possibility of Jacobs’
heading anti-Feeney slate. Fight can be conducted at lower levels without associating other organization candidates with Jacobs as part of what Feeney's trying to beat. Strategy may go even further with attempt to make it appear McKinney-McDuff organization is opposing Jacobs and that he's really just Feeney's "boy. - Thus Jacobs pull would be counted on to help other Feeney candidates instead of hurting them. Obvious reader interest in Feeney-McKinney battle of words should make it easy for Mayor at least to get publicity on statement he's trying to keep organization from “dumping” Andy. Party chiefs probably won't let Mayor get away with it, but Mayor has everything to gain, nothing to lose, by giving it old college try,
Feeney’s Strategy
POLITICAL fight everybody is talking about—Republicans and Democrats = is headline battle royal between Mayor Feeney and Sheriff Cunning-ham-Frank McKinney et al. Those in the know say "Mayor Feeney's assaults on Mr. Cunningham are part of a carefully worked out plan to oust Paul McDuff as Marion County Democratic party chairman. A Mr. Feeney, they say, picked Mr. Cunningham as “weakest” organizatien candidate and aimed his missles --aceordingly. He intends to hit at Mr. Cunningham and coast into power as ceunty Democratic chieftain if City Hall slate captures enough public offices. Another late rumor in that crowded (21-—cqunt ‘em-—21) candidate Sheriff's - race is whispered around City Hall that Demo Sheriff Cunningham and one opponent, exSheriff “Al Magénheimer, Republican, have made a “campaign deal.” One of those “I won't say anything bad about you in my speeches {f you don't say anything bad about me” things. Who is supposed ‘to have approached whom isn’t said. ’ ~ . » Exactly the opposite of the “Democratic sheriff's race is the same party's prosecutor race. At this point former Municipal Judge John MeNelis is man without a faction. ! Here again know-it-alls have
“the answers. Fhey say Feeney “Hive Word of ‘warn! ng to any
crowd is afraid to take McNe{is and besides they'd colnted on Prosecutor George Dalley as ‘one of their helpers. Organization sources say flatly they'll back Mr. Dailey; wouldn't even consider Mr. McNeiis. ‘Result: Mr. Dailey, who's been steering clear in the feuding, can keep nose clean on faction troubles and romp home. - ” y
Showdown?
ANTI-ORGANIZATION faction in state Democratic feud are predicting “showdown” early next week. Other sources say this is more wishful thinking than fact, but even so will breathe "easier when week's over. Antis claim support of at least two, possibly three, elected state officials. But they need Governor's support -tomake it pay off. They say they'll get it and will drive for all or nothing. By “all” they
. mean throw out Ira Haymaker
as state chairman; fire John Hurt as secretary, fire Frank McKinney as treasurer and fire Mrs. Ruby Ware as state vice chairman-—an ambitious program. ‘They also want license bureau patronage- snipped away: from Secretary of State
* Charles Fleming. first to keep
him from using it in organi-
Feeney
. downtown
zation fight, him from using it to promote himself for Governor in 1952,
determine if . they could fire Frank McHale as national
committeeman in middle of his four-year term. : Spokesmen for group say
they may offer to get along without this one, though. They figure they can stop McHale by just not paying any attene tion to him if they control rest of organization. - They've set next week as deadline fof Schricker to get in there and do job for them. If nothing happens by that time, even most optimistic anti-organiza-
"tion boys will concede drive
has bogged down.
SOME OUR FAIR CITY citle__ izens aboard a Monon road train stopped in Bedford recently got indignant as they watched woman on the platform jab a baby buggy with umbrella. The prettily dressed “mothe er” kept jabbing inside the cars riage. She finally used the ume
swings. Then. the “baby” jumped out .of carriage, over the woman's head ane ran down the tracks. It was a South American
monkey. The young woman ex-
plained her husband had chained him in the buggy but the agile monk got loose. e was trying to keep him in 3 buggy until hubby came back,
WHEN THE old English Theater went down, so did big attendance figures at Lenten services, Business people would walk te English to worship. But First Baptist Church, where Lenten services now are held, is too far to travel. during lunch hour, business people say. » ” »
Gamble
second. to. keep. ...
“They're-even studying law to =e
_brella as a club with Justy
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POLITICOS who have - watched rise and fall of fabue — =.
lous French Lick Spring Hatel
prospective buyer. “No dice.” they say, literally is the trouble. When late Tom Taggart owned it, gambling was wide open. Then hotel was in chips. * The hotel showed profit of more than $400,000 - in 1948
. and has declined steadily as
lid tightened on dice games, Last year 1000-room hotel, in spite of full convention booke ings, dropped about $37,000, Hotel's now in receivership. New buyers are nibbling, But wise politicos point out hotel's off the beaten track
, except for conventions and
“resters.” And they add its
Srest appeal” lies more in dice
than in baths as a generation ago. Any buyer, word goes, can well afford to be sure he'll have ‘“go-sign” on slots and see that casinos have same for other games. Otherwise, he'll 80 way of other hotel owners, ” ” » SOMEONE finally wrangled “guilty” plea from Municipal Court 4 Judge Alex Clark in that little matter of who put shiny new hatchet on Municie pal 3 Judge Joe Howard's desk, It was just downstairs Re« publican judge's way of 3
‘dling the upstairs Democrat:
magistrate, right after Mr, Howard was labeled a “hatchet
” 4 th man n ro in